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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1945
Page
4
Browning School notes detail state and local civics lessons, history themes like the Rising of the West and the Populists, new books, and the Arithmetic Review course. It lists class changes, typing contracts, bookkeeping challenges, and the first issues of school publications while noting several students on the honor roll across grades.
Room III reports returning to regular schedule after a successful tournament win by the girls’ team. Honor Roll lists for seventh and eighth grades include Gale Hedges and Carmen Hedges among others, with notes on grades and letters.
The notice outlines current rationing stamps for meats cheese butter fats blue stamps for canned foods sugar stamps No 34 good for five pounds civilian use furlough coupons one pound each shoe stamps per page restricts and license requirements. Gasoline coupons No 14 good for four gallons to March 21 plus five gallon allowances for certain sheet pairs. Fuel oil periods indicate different 1943 44 and 1944 45 issuances with gallons per unit and submission rules for extra gasoline applications.
The 1944 year saw a wet spring with a very wet April and August and a cold snowy December. January was warm and dry, February mild, March and May uneven, June dry, July dry, August the wettest month at 6.50 inches, September warm and drier, October dry, and November mild and cloudy. Total yearly precipitation was 40.16 inches, near normal.
The period shows March August and November as wetter than normal with 4.59 56.50 and 4.93 inches respectively. Six months February March April August November and December were wetter while July October and six others were drier. The average temperature was 52.9 degrees, 1.1 above normal. December was coldest and July warmest with a high of 98 on August 10 and a low of -9 on December 26.
The article notes reduced civilian rations as military needs rise overseas with five million troops. Meat production falls about two billion pounds below last year while butter and sugar allotments shrink. Officials aim to release more reserved food for civilians but shortages persist amid ongoing war.
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